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CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2019

Oct

18

2018

Digital Humanities at Michigan State University has released a call for proposals for the 4th Global Digital Humanities Symposium (or Global DH), to be held March 21-22, 2019 at Michigan State University. The 2019 symposium invites “work at the intersections of critical DH; race and ethnicity; feminism, intersectionality, and gender; and anti-colonial and postcolonial frameworks to participate.” ...

JOB: Digital Publishing and Copyright Librarian, University of Delaware

Oct

18

2018

From the announcement: The University of Delaware Library seeks a motivated, creative, and service-oriented professional to lead a new unit, Digital Scholarship and Research Services, which includes two vacant Digital Scholarship Librarian positions that are also being recruited at this time. The new unit will provide University faculty, researchers, and students with services for innovative ...

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, Columbia University

Oct

18

2018

From the announcement: Columbia University Libraries (CUL) seeks an innovative and energetic Digital Projects librarian to coordinate and participate in technical project planning and implementation of significant, high-visibility digitization and digital publishing projects involving the Libraries’ rich research collections. As part of the Digital Library and Scholarly Technologies (DLST) group, the incumbent will work with ...

POST: Redesigning WOAH: Women of Ancient History

Sep

6

2018

Sarah Bond (University of Iowa) has written a blog post reflecting on “the ways in which digital humanities projects can be used to amplify, to visualize, and to give agency to underrepresented groups.” Bond asks “How can digital humanities contribute to social justice?,” and goes on to provide examples of DH projects that explicitly seek ...

RESOURCE: Will open access increase journal CiteScores? An empirical investigation over multiple disciplines

Sep

6

2018

Yang Li, Chaojiang Wu, Erjia Yan, and Kai Li (all Drexel University) have published an article in PLOS One entitled “Will open access increase journal CiteScores? An empirical investigation over multiple disciplines.” From the abstract: This paper empirically studies the effect of Open Access on journal CiteScores. We have found that the general effect is positive but ...

RESOURCE: Towards Open Access Self Archiving Policies: A Case Study of COAR

Sep

6

2018

Bijan Kumar Roy (University of Burdwan), Subal Chandra Biswas (University of Burdwan), and Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay (University of Kalyani) have published “Towards Open Access Self Archiving Policies: A Case Study of COAR” in LIBER Quarterly. From the abstract: This paper examines Open Access (OA) self archiving policies of different Open Access Repositories (OARs) affiliated to COAR (Confederation of Open ...

CFP: Current Research in Digital History 2019

Sep

6

2018

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media has released a call for papers for the Current Research in Digital History conference, to be held at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia on March 9, 2019. Following the event, “presentations will be peer-reviewed and published in an online publication that accommodates dynamic visualizations and narrative.” Successful ...

CFP: Terms of Service: Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers

Sep

6

2018

Editor Lee Skallerup Bessette (Georgetown University) has issued a call for submissions for a collection of short essays entitled, Terms of Service: Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers, which will be released by the University of Kansas Press. This collection seeks to focus on “the experience of those who have chosen alt-ac careers (aka ‘staff’)”: Librarians are ...

CFP: Collections as Data: Part to Whole

Sep

6

2018

The Collections as Data team have issued a call for proposals for project teams to “further develop approaches to integrating and sustaining collections as data implementation and use as a core organizational activity” and develop “broadly viable models that support implementation and use of collections as data.” Successful proposals will receive funding and support from ...

OPPORTUNITY: 2018 GLAM Cross-Pollinator Registration Awards

Sep

6

2018

The Digital Library Foundation and its partners have opened applications for GLAM cross-pollinator awards, intended to fund DLF-affiliated professionals to attend the conferences of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), the Museum Computer Network (MCN), and the Visual Resources Association (VRA): Museum and library staff face similar challenges in the digital ...

JOB: Archivist, Digital Archives, Canadian Centre for Architecture

Sep

6

2018

From the announcement: The responsibilities of this job include the supervision, coordination and monitoring of the archival projects, and specifically the born-digital archives. The incumbent oversees and develops local practices for managing born-digital material held and acquired by the CCA and assists in the strategic direction of acquisition, preservation, and access to born-digital and paper-based ...